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Site of the day! Check out this superb site, Butlins Memories that has loads of obscure facts and photos from the British holiday camps of the 1950s-80s. If you’re in …

F-f-f-fucking f-f-f-freezing! Now, I like cold weather. You can’t beat walking through fresh snow in the crisp light of a winter’s night, jacket zipped up against a chilly wind and …

Spamtastic 🙁 Fuck me: 240 identical spams in 2 minutes marks a new record even for me (and, believe me, I get a load of shitty spam every day). The …

Manics at the Academy Brixton Just come back from an excellent show in Brixton (on the guest list too, thanks to my CCFC-loving chum, Scott!). I know that the Manics …

what a day… …consisting of a cod-mystic gay marriage ceremony in the GLA buildings (“earth energy streams”, my arse!), followed by a lovely N London reception. Then the news of …

The mother, father and close family of hangovers …is coming soon! Yep, after tonight’s alco-fest at a London Bridge Xmas party my head is sure to be spinning tomorrow. I’ve …

Brixton Winter Lights are go! Or rather, they will be at 7pm tonight when internationally-renown, A-list celeb, Jeff, err, Schuman (who he?) from, err, Choice FM (who they?) throws the …

Things I liked this weekend: Cardiff City crushing QPR 4-0 at Loftus Road (although I had to sit in the wrong stand), the fantastic Butlins photos at the Photographer’s Gallery, …

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NYC photos are go! After days and days of editing, sorting and generally fiddling about in a caffeine haze, I’ve now uploaded 200+ brand spankin’ new New York photos. Click …

PowerPoint: the output of Satan’s electronic bottom Why do people inflict ghastly PowerPoint presentations which only echo the exact words the bloke is saying? Do I really need to see …

Bleary eyed in Brixton Friday night was party night down Brixton way as we first hit a packed Albert for some heavy-duty quaffing before moving on to the Canterbury Arms …

Pubs rule! Let’s be honest: is there anything better than spending a few hours chatting with your mates over a few beers? Things get even better when the Stella is …

New York photos coming soon (honest!) I’ve spent hours today trawling through some of the 800+ photos, weeding out the crap (there’s a lot of that!) and optimising the decent …

Internet Launch Party nostalgia! Last night I went to a truly bizarre West End launch party for a really crap website, with a comically bad presentation that had all my …

Why am I still awake?! I haven’t slept for 36 hours but after being tempted out to my local pub the evening has proved to be a long one…it doesn’t …

Back in the UK! I know there’s nothing more boring than some lucky bastard who’s just been on a fabulous holiday whinging about being jet lagged, so I’ll tell you …

A rainy day in Soho The rain is still blasting down in Manhattan but we’ve spent a lovely day all snug on the Pink Pony cafe on Ludlow Street. Now …

Hungover in Manhattan Last night proved to be another lager fest, taking in an alcoholic stroll along the Lower East Side before finally crashing into the Raven Bar at 2am, …

Argh! My hangover! Spent last night hitting the bars of Williamsburg and it rocked! Our friendly bartender dispensed the free drinks and shots like they were going out of business …

It’s finally stopped raining! After two days of torrential rain the thunderous deluge over New York has finally cleared. Yesterday we walked downtown and passed the site of the WTC, …

Update from rainy Manhattan Still having a fantastic time out in NYC although the weather’s turned to a London-stylee constant drizzle…The good news is that I’ve managed to get my …

NYC diary…spent the day hanging in Brooklyn and Williamsburg today: Brooklyn is a fab mix of bleak industrial grimness and beautiful Hampstead-esque village houses and W’Burg truly rocks – I …

Greetings from New York! Flew over in a super-high tech Virgin AirBus. The video screen was so hi-tech, you could text/ring/email the ground, send text messages to fellow passengers and …

Wohoo! What a night! Met up with a mob of urban75-ers at the Hobgoblin in Brixton, wandered over to Brockwell Park to watch the fireworks display, then back to the …

Sun comes up, it’s Tuesday morning… A tale of loss and healing by the Cowboy Junkies

I took a load of photos over the weekend of people huddled underneath umbrellas and battling against autumnal gales – expect some in the photo gallery soon!

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Thanks to the kind assistance of Emerald, I finally got the Blogger archives sorted. Flushed with success, I then spent hours redesigning the whassup page, which is now rapidly turning …